FUND: 85999.60eur
Cofinancing: 85 %
Contribution: 15176.00eur
Total budget: 101176.00eur
Latvia University of Agriculture is the only higher agricultural education establishment in Latvia and it aims to: promote intellectual potential for rural development in agriculture; encourage young people to acquire higher academic and professional education; develop research; contribute to the cultural development; study, maintain and perfect the gained experience from the Latvian people and pass it over to the future generations. The university is multi-profiled. Besides the traditional study fields, LLU also provides multiform unique study programmes related with advanced agriculture, veterinary medicine, food production, forestry and landscape architecture. About 7000 students and more than 300 lecturers and researchers carry out research significant for Latvia, Baltic Sea Region and are involved in research programs of the European Union. The university is located in Jelgava – an old cultural city that is only 40 km from the capital of Latvia – Riga. Jelgava is recognized as a true student city. Faculty of Rural Engineering is the second biggest faculty of the University, where new engineers – construction, environment and water management specialists, land surveyors, as well as landscape designers and planners, are prepared. At the faculty, there are four scientific laboratories and two of them are located in advanced two story premises, which allows the use of all the functional possibilities. Students at the Faculty work with up-to-date equipment, thus having an opportunity to comprehend causalities existing in the nature and to apply them in a particular task in their future work.